3300John:
Hiya…D 252 DRF how about Barry Proctor on the brick job he had some big tackle.he would be an Hartshorns man
Lance has this lorry always been a white cab what colour chassis…come on you stoke lads did ANC have a fleet
of 12s…now how about Bailey,s the red ones he has the Scania now…how many of you remember the football
hooligan pinching his wendy house and going on the rampage round Hanley i think there was 15 or 20 smashed police
cars and some shops got wrecked.
John
Definitely wasn’t one of Jeff Bailey’s - The last “big” cab Volvo’s were C-registered 6x2 F10’s (my dad drove one), which were then followed by the FL10’s one of which as you rightly recall escaped one evening! It did get repaired and put back to work though.
3300John:
Hiya…D 252 DRF how about Barry Proctor on the brick job he had some big tackle.he would be an Hartshorns man
Lance has this lorry always been a white cab what colour chassis…come on you stoke lads did ANC have a fleet
of 12s…now how about Bailey,s the red ones he has the Scania now…how many of you remember the football
hooligan pinching his wendy house and going on the rampage round Hanley i think there was 15 or 20 smashed police
cars and some shops got wrecked.
John
Definitely wasn’t one of Jeff Bailey’s - The last “big” cab Volvo’s were C-registered 6x2 F10’s (my dad drove one), which were then followed by the FL10’s one of which as you rightly recall escaped one evening! It did get repaired and put back to work though.
Hiya messer…did you drive for D&D Winsford at one time■■?
John
3300John:
Hiya…D 252 DRF how about Barry Proctor on the brick job he had some big tackle.he would be an Hartshorns man
Lance has this lorry always been a white cab what colour chassis…come on you stoke lads did ANC have a fleet
of 12s…now how about Bailey,s the red ones he has the Scania now…how many of you remember the football
hooligan pinching his wendy house and going on the rampage round Hanley i think there was 15 or 20 smashed police
cars and some shops got wrecked.
John
Definitely wasn’t one of Jeff Bailey’s - The last “big” cab Volvo’s were C-registered 6x2 F10’s (my dad drove one), which were then followed by the FL10’s one of which as you rightly recall escaped one evening! It did get repaired and put back to work though.
Hiya messer…did you drive for D&D Winsford at one time■■?
John
Hi 3300John,
Not me I’m afraid - Biggest regret was never taking up the offer of fully paid for lessons when the opportunity presented itself many years ago. You live and learn!
Spent all my time at Bailey’s (via my dad), from the Gardner powered ERF days through to the invasion of the Wendy House’s!
3300John:
Hiya…D 252 DRF how about Barry Proctor on the brick job he had some big tackle.he would be an Hartshorns man
Lance has this lorry always been a white cab what colour chassis…come on you stoke lads did ANC have a fleet
of 12s…now how about Bailey,s the red ones he has the Scania now…how many of you remember the football
hooligan pinching his wendy house and going on the rampage round Hanley i think there was 15 or 20 smashed police
cars and some shops got wrecked.
John
Definitely wasn’t one of Jeff Bailey’s - The last “big” cab Volvo’s were C-registered 6x2 F10’s (my dad drove one), which were then followed by the FL10’s one of which as you rightly recall escaped one evening! It did get repaired and put back to work though.
Hiya messer…did you drive for D&D Winsford at one time■■?
you’ll have seen me around i worked at Harrisons for 7 years.i did tipping work when Ronnie Pearson was on holiday with his trailer
it was me who had the first brick crane on Harrisons…JR come to work with us as transport clerk so i left.there was a chap who worked for D&D his dad was on for Jeff for years i can’t remember his name. last time i saw him he was on for that pets at home?? green lorries.
i was working for Laybond in chester D&D did work from there
John
Not me I’m afraid - Biggest regret was never taking up the offer of fully paid for lessons when the opportunity presented itself many years ago. You live and learn!
Spent all my time at Bailey’s (via my dad), from the Gardner powered ERF days through to the invasion of the Wendy House’s!
3300John:
Hiya the chap i knew who worked at Knight and Riley was a friend of a friend. this chap was a quiet cockney
but was a rouge in disguise…he’d done a couple of trips to Italy in a FFK bmc(about 1969)then got a new Commer
(might have been a maxiload)it had twin headlights. on his way home he come across another chap (Italian)with a
damaged truck the same model (Commer) this cockney sold the front o/side. the lights bumper mudwing and door
to this chap. anyhow the lorry got back to the uk and was put into a garage for repair.(half the cab missing)
the cockney told Knight and Riley someone had run into him and he’d taken the damaged parts off for safety
Longton told the driver to make his way home. he did he called a taxi…£35 in 1969. maybe 2 weeks wages.
so another driver is going to Italy. he sees this Commer a bit knocked about with a new Knight and Riley front corner
and door (still with Knight and Riley stoke on Trent written all over it)
the chap never painted it out…that was the end for the cockney driver, he was up the road without a truck.
John
My next door neighbour drove for Knight & Rileys about 1966, his name was Ken Quoroll. Does anyone remember him ?
He was at the Newland Street depot in Shelton, and also drove for Staffordshire Farmers, also in Shelton.
Tragically, he died at a very early age, whilst waiting for his wife to collect him from hospital after heart surgery. John
NOVE:
Longton Crane Hire’s yard is M-Way now isn’t it?
Before I retired I was in engineering with my brother, we were kiln builders based in Cobridge and we used Longton Crane Hire a lot for our big lifts, either transporting new equipment from our yard or moving equipment from pot banks for export or relocation. This was up until I retired eleven years ago.
Shortly before I retired Longton bought a new crane, something like a 200 tonner, biggest crane in Stoke at the time, when they were practicing with it in their yard and had the jib on maximum height, you could see it from miles around.
I have many pics of Lontgon Crane Hire in action, I will dig some out.
We used the big crane when we installed some ex Portmeirion kilns into Burleigh pottery at Middleport, requiring a big crane as we had to lift from the car park over some buildings through the roof of another, we had the Sentinel there taking pics, I did have one copy of that I’ll try and look out.
I have found this pic from The Sentinel newspaper at the time we did the big lift with Longton’s new crane as it was then.
Somewhere I have some pics of the complete vehicle, but this shot for the newspaper just wanted to show how high we had to lift from the car park, over a two story building and in through the roof of the room where the kiln was going to be installed.
valf:
Hi, anyone remember Mawby’s used to run from Burslem subbed for Brits
That was my dad. He ran a fleet doing continental, Italy until early 2000s then France and doing bricks for Steetley/Redland for many years. Finally closed the doors on it 4 years ago and now works for Carlsons driving car transporters.
Those were good days running Italy for Brits, later went onto work for an importer/ exporter doing groupage
valf:
Hi, anyone remember Mawby’s used to run from Burslem subbed for Brits
That was my dad. He ran a fleet doing continental, Italy until early 2000s then France and doing bricks for Steetley/Redland for many years. Finally closed the doors on it 4 years ago and now works for Carlsons driving car transporters.
Those were good days running Italy for Brits, later went onto work for an importer/ exporter doing groupage
Hiya a mate of mine Dean worked for Mawbys. i think he did Milan a few times. plenty of driving he said at the time.
he went to Barry proctors after that i think.
valf:
Hi, anyone remember Mawby’s used to run from Burslem subbed for Brits
That was my dad. He ran a fleet doing continental, Italy until early 2000s then France and doing bricks for Steetley/Redland for many years. Finally closed the doors on it 4 years ago and now works for Carlsons driving car transporters.
Those were good days running Italy for Brits, later went onto work for an importer/ exporter doing groupage
Hiya a mate of mine Dean worked for Mawbys. i think he did Milan a few times. plenty of driving he said at the time.
he went to Barry proctors after that i think.
It would wear the keyboard out if we put everywhere where Deano worked.
valf:
Hi, anyone remember Mawby’s used to run from Burslem subbed for Brits
That was my dad. He ran a fleet doing continental, Italy until early 2000s then France and doing bricks for Steetley/Redland for many years. Finally closed the doors on it 4 years ago and now works for Carlsons driving car transporters.
Those were good days running Italy for Brits, later went onto work for an importer/ exporter doing groupage
Hiya a mate of mine Dean worked for Mawbys. i think he did Milan a few times. plenty of driving he said at the time.
he went to Barry proctors after that i think.
It would wear the keyboard out if we put everywhere where Deano worked.
i was going to put a long list of companies, i,ve know him almost 40 years. you never see him down do you, if he,s not
happy whoosh he,s gone. the last time i was talking with him he was on for Gibsons form Goole way, its the best job he ever had
so he was telling me.if i was looking for a driver i’d phone him. he come to work at Harrisons with us in 1976/7 i think that was his first driving job…where was he before he drove…any ideas■■?
valf:
Hi, anyone remember Mawby’s used to run from Burslem subbed for Brits
That was my dad. He ran a fleet doing continental, Italy until early 2000s then France and doing bricks for Steetley/Redland for many years. Finally closed the doors on it 4 years ago and now works for Carlsons driving car transporters.
Those were good days running Italy for Brits, later went onto work for an importer/ exporter doing groupage
Hiya a mate of mine Dean worked for Mawbys. i think he did Milan a few times. plenty of driving he said at the time.
he went to Barry proctors after that i think.
It would wear the keyboard out if we put everywhere where Deano worked.
i was going to put a long list of companies, i,ve know him almost 40 years. you never see him down do you, if he,s not
happy whoosh he,s gone. the last time i was talking with him he was on for Gibsons form Goole way, its the best job he ever had
so he was telling me.if i was looking for a driver i’d phone him. he come to work at Harrisons with us in 1976/7 i think that was his first driving job…where was he before he drove…any ideas■■?
I remember Deano. Started on the 8 wheel Foden brick truck then went onto the Iveco Turbostar artic doing bricks down south and returning with wood from tilbury. He did do Italy a few times when the bricks went slow. Good guy from what I can remember. Must have worked for the old man round 89. I was about 12 at the time. If I remember correctly he did another stint with my dad a few years later but could be wrong.
hiya… Deano was a tyre fitter at Kennings. he passed his test and did the odd load for Harrisons, when Harrisons built
that 8 legger.( Ex british salt) Dean drove it. Harrisons bought it with no engine box or body they had a not so good unit
and made a good 8 legger brick waggon…Dean had a mate who lost his life changing a tyre not far from jct 15 it upset
him bad at the time. as soon as a job come up he got out of the tyre job. he must ok because if he leaves somewhere
he goes back another day, only to leave again…good lad Deano. his dad was a driver.
John
3300John:
hiya… Deano was a tyre fitter at Kennings. he passed his test and did the odd load for Harrisons, when Harrisons built
that 8 legger.( Ex british salt) Dean drove it. Harrisons bought it with no engine box or body they had a not so good unit
and made a good 8 legger brick waggon…Dean had a mate who lost his life changing a tyre not far from jct 15 it upset
him bad at the time. as soon as a job come up he got out of the tyre job. he must ok because if he leaves somewhere
he goes back another day, only to leave again…good lad Deano. his dad was a driver.
John
Good mate of mine, his dad was a driver at creda (proper man) drove the only bedford creda at blythe bridge had (the blue Marlin ) was his handle on the CB.The diffrence is on this web site is some people talk a good job but some of us can do the job trust me Deano may have had a few jobs like myself but dont knock the man cus he can do it regards Nick Basford
Hiya …if i was in the position to want a driver Deano would be on top…i think he come into the job 10 years late.
he’d have suited the older way drivers worked…BUT the tackle would have been not so good he likes his motors.
if hes around north wales he always phones me in good time and i’ll go to where hes loading/tipping for a chat.
now he’s changed jobs (did i say change jobs)he doesn’t come this way.
John
3300John:
hiya… Deano was a tyre fitter at Kennings. he passed his test and did the odd load for Harrisons, when Harrisons built
that 8 legger.( Ex british salt) Dean drove it. Harrisons bought it with no engine box or body they had a not so good unit
and made a good 8 legger brick waggon…Dean had a mate who lost his life changing a tyre not far from jct 15 it upset
him bad at the time. as soon as a job come up he got out of the tyre job. he must ok because if he leaves somewhere
he goes back another day, only to leave again…good lad Deano. his dad was a driver.
John
Good mate of mine, his dad was a driver at creda (proper man) drove the only bedford creda at blythe bridge had (the blue Marlin ) was his handle on the CB.The diffrence is on this web site is some people talk a good job but some of us can do the job trust me Deano may have had a few jobs like myself but dont knock the man cus he can do it regards Nick Basford
Hi Andrew,
Hope your well
Them are great shots, any chance you could scan them individually and post - would be great to see them in full glory
Regards
Ant
Hiya… Deano,s on for Simon Gibson doing Sand out of Congleton his truck is based at Middlewich.
well that was last month.before that he was doing Low loader work for a chap in or near Uttoxeter
and before that it was low loader work for a Liverpool outfit.
John
the flying foden:
does any body have any pictures of jack critchlow truck or Nixon’s from sandyford ,Spencer’s transport or any other company from stoke
the flying foden:
does any body have any pictures of jack critchlow truck or Nixon’s from sandyford ,Spencer’s transport or any other company from stoke
